Antony Liu is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience who co-founded D33P Search Recruitment from his spare bedroom while based in the New York City metro area. He blends backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to major open-source projects like the GitLab CE mirror focused on internationalization—with hands-on mobile and .NET work improving UX, stability, and Excel processing performance. His contributions show a habit of digging into edge cases: fixing iOS-specific crashes and nuanced Excel formula/date parsing bugs, and optimizing XSSF performance. Comfortable across stacks, Antony pairs product-minded problem solving with a willingness to operate at both code and company levels. He holds an LLB from Leeds Beckett University, bringing legal‑thinking rigor to technical challenges and recruitment operations. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic fixes that improve cross‑platform user experiences and for turning small, persistent issues into lasting product quality gains.
13 years of coding experience
11 GCSE's - 1(A), 8(B), 2(C), 11 GCSE's - 1(A), 8(B), 2(C) at Tapton Secondary School
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Second Class Honors, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Second Class Honors at Leeds Beckett University
A Levels, Sociology (B), Product Design (B), Business Studies (B), Communication & Culture (C), A Levels, Sociology (B), Product Design (B), Business Studies (B), Communication & Culture (C) at Tapton Sixth Form
a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Bug Fixer
Contributions:7 reviews, 1184 commits, 171 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Antony's contributions focused primarily on fixing bugs related to Excel formatting and processing. They addressed issues in formulas with structured references, date parsing, and handling various data types. Their work involved modifications across multiple classes, indicating a strong understanding of the underlying workings of the POI library for Excel file manipulation. Furthermore, the user also contributed to performance optimization by caching and improving various performance issues in XSSF.
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:38 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Antony's contributions primarily focused on internationalization (i18n) efforts within the GitLab project. They externalized strings from various user profile settings, including the profile, password, Two-Factor Authentication, email, and notification pages. This involved modifying controllers and potentially associated views to support multiple languages. The user also appears to have addressed issues related to account unlinking.
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